OPINION:Benue Assembly, Kester Kyenge & the 2016 Budget in 2017
The Benue State Assembly is a reputable institution that every sane citizen from Benue must reverend. In 2003, some of us started having higher regard for the Assemby when we were privileged as SUG Officials to appear before the House on issues bothering on Withdrawal of Students by the Benue State University on a controversial "3 Sitting Combination", the House listened to our argument and passed a resolution in the students favour.
However, I have equally had cause to question the house on a number of issues. One of such was the persecutory suspension of late Hon. Baver Dzeremo by Terseer Tsumba led Assembly, according Hon. Bula Wilred, who recalled how their late colleague was suspended on the directives of the chief executive of the state where the assembly breached all laid down procedures and used a mere local publication in order to satisfy the governor, he said all that was done with the hope that all the things promised them will be fulfilled.
In his words, "the public grumbled with almost all the decisions we took including refusing to probe the state/local government joint account, we could not realize but at the end, nothing was given to us. Some of my colleagues left the assembly worse than they came in” (Ati Terkula, 2012). Yes, we grumbled and protested but how did all the Assembly members end, are most of them not "living dead"?
This morning I listened to the radio and shook my head over the extension of Kester Kyenge's suspension, recalling also what Tsumba did to his friend Baver Dzeremo. Some people who do not think properly will say it is "do me I do you" politics but the reality is that it serves as a sad attestation against the change mantrapedia to have an entire constituency eliminated at the Assembly.
Finally, let me congratulate the Benue State Assembly particularly the Speaker Terkimbi Ikyange, that while Assemblies in Kaduna and elsewhere have passed 2017 fiscal policies, the Benue Assembly has done so well by passing 2016 Budget in February 2017. This is not only historic but also instructive to the dictum, "it is better late than not". Una well done ooo.
We are progressing arithmetically into 2017 with geometric retrogression into 2016.
Gurgur Japheth MP is from the Commonwealth of Gboko, represented by Hon. Chabo.
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